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Word Meanings - GUARDHOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

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  • GUARDIAN
    One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
  • GUARDANT
    See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
  • GUARDIANSHIP
    The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
  • GUARDIANESS
    A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
  • GUARDIANLESS
    Without a guardian. Marston.
  • CONFINABLE
    Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
  • GUARDER
    One who guards.
  • GUARDS
    A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • MISCONDUCT
    To behave amiss.
  • GUARDHOUSE
    A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
  • CONFINELESS
    Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • GUARDED
    Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.
  • CONFINEMENT
    1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
  • CONFINITY
    Community of limits; contiguity. Bailey.
  • GUARDFISH
    The garfish.
  • HENCE
    ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
  • GUARDENAGE
    Guardianship. " His tuition and guardenage." Holland.
  • OCCUPIER
    1. One who occupies, or has possession. 2. One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman. "Merchants and occupiers." Holland. The occupiers of thy merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 27.
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • COUNTERGUARD
    A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • SHIPBUILDER
    A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
  • COGUARDIAN
    A joint guardian.
  • VANGUARD
    The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard,
  • OUTBUILD
    To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
  • AXLE GUARD
    The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.
  • OVERBUILD
    1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.

 

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